Author Tamara Tracz

Lily Bart (Gillian Anderson) begins The House of Mirth (Terence Davies, 2000) a member of New York high society whose parentage, beauty and intelligence easily compensate for her lack of wealth. She ends it dea...

Towards the end of Conte d’hiver (A Winter’s Tale, Eric Rohmer, 1992), the protagonist Felicie goes on a series of journeys. Felicie spends a large part of the film on public transport, but now she is in the ca...

One hundred and twenty-seven pages into this substantial biography of Eric Rohmer, Antoine de Baecque and Noël Herpe, having described their subject’s quotidian routines, throw up their hands in seeming despair...

At the end of La Grande Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937), two prisoners of war, working class engineer Marechal (Jean Gabin) and wealthy Jew Rosenthal (Marcel Dalio) attempt an escape from a German patrol across a ...

There is a difference between biography and autobiography. The first explores the events of a life, while attempting a true and representative narrative. The second is a construction, a series of choices made b...

Some readings of Chantal Akerman’s Je tu il elle (I, You, He, She, 1974) assign the character Akerman portrays to je (me), the viewer to tu (you), the truck driver with whom she hitches a lift to il (him), and ...

A child in a red cap goes to deliver lunch to Grandmother’s house but never returns. Except 6 years later, he does, cut from the belly of the big bad city. There’s no ambiguity in Olivier Olivier as to its rela...

Beau travail (1999 France 90 mins) Prod Co: Le Sept-Arte/SM Films/Tanaïs Productions Prod: Patrick Grandperret, Jérôme Minet Dir: Claire Denis Scr: Claire Denis, Jean-Pol Fargeau, based on Herman Melvill...

This annotation previously appeared in Senses of Cinema, no. 36, Jul–Sept 2005. A Canterbury Tale (1944 UK 124 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: The Archers Prod, Dir, Scr: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburg...

March 2–12, 2006 In do you remember sapphire the writer bell hooks talks about the experience of not seeing herself or anyone like her (a black girl) represented in the films that she saw, and the extrao...

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942 USA 88 mins) Prod Co: Mercury Productions/RKO Pictures Prod, Dir: Orson Welles Scr: Orson Welles, based on the novel by Booth Tarkington Phot: Stanley Cortez Ed: Robert Wi...

A Canterbury Tale (1944 UK 124 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: The Archers Prod, Dir, Scr: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger Phot: Edwin Hillier Ed: John Seabourne Prod Des: Alfred Junge Mus: Allan Gray ...

Dishonored is one of the least discussed of the Sternberg-Dietrich cycle that began with The Blue Angel in 1930 and ended six films and five years later with The Devil is a Woman in 1935. In David A. Cook's A H...

Not just a “spy movie”, Rohmer's film is a stylish summation of his 50-year career and, more than tackling his lifelong occupation with verbal interaction and demystification of the other, perhaps ultimately posits a stark verdict about the self.

Jean-Marie Maurice Scherer b. April 4, 1920, Nancy, France d. January 11, 2010, Paris, France filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources In 1978, in the middle of a career spanning...

If notions of the 'other' have played a role in relations between the West and contemporary Iranian cinema, Tracz discusses how this film works somewhat differently.